The FTC social disclosure rules apply to you – now. This webinar shows you how to do social right: Effectively. Ethically. Legally. These guidelines actually keep you out of trouble while building consumer trust along the way.

Learn how to better connect with your audiences on each social channel. Our 2018 Social Audience Guide breaks down everything you need to know to from demographics, device usage and even site behavior. Start engaging in a more meaningful way, today. Download your guide.

Looking for a general primer or quick tactical reference on social marketing? We wrote the 2018 version of the Social Media Pocket Guide for you. In engaging, easy-to-read chapters, the Pocket Guide provides a broad overview of social media’s evolution — including current themes like pay to play, digital integrations, social care, and more. We also break down the latest tips and tactics for the four most common social objectives and explore specific use cases like product launches, events, and capitalizing on real-time trends. Do you learn by example? This guide is packed with fresh strategy inspiration from 15 different global brands and media properties. Keep The Social Media Pocket Guide on hand as your quick and definitive reference on all things social strategy.

1.Meet the new consumer
The migration to mobile and social media will challenge — and change — everything we know about consumer marketing.
2. Who owns your brand?
Brand equity can no longer be bought. Online reviews now generate total market transparency for location-based businesses. Reviews tilt the balance of branding power away from companies and into the hands of customers.
3. The battle for brick-and-mortar customers is won or lost on the social web. To win, marketers must actively enlist customers as online advocates. Those who scale online review volume and quality will be rewarded with higher search visibility and more business at street level.
4. “Dark data” provides priceless operational insights
Vast amounts of unstructured, unmined sentiment data on social media provides feedback about the customer experience that you can filter using thematic analysis and use to improve operations at the national or location level.
5. Business implications
Online reputation stands betwee

1. Meet the new healthcare consumer
The consumerization of healthcare, major demographic shifts, and the migration
to mobile and social media are tilting the balance of power away from traditional
healthcare marketers and into the hands of potential patients.
2. Online reputation is the new competitive frontier for marketers
Healthcare brands are no longer controlled by marketers. Patient feedback about
doctors and facilities online is leading to total market transparency for healthcare
consumers. CG-CAHPS surveys only go so far in providing social proof.
3. Healthcare branding is becoming hyper-local
In the search for providers, all branding is local – at the level of individual
practitioners and facilities. Proliferating points of presence on the web make this
a challenge that requires technology. But healthcare marketers who scale online
review volume and quality will be rewarded with higher search visibility.
4. Business implications
Online ratings and reviews stand between everyth

Given that Facebook alone has nearly a billion users, the possibilities are too significant to ignore. But how do you tap into the full potential? Our best practices ROI report focuses on 6 social marketing success stories from 5 different industries-each demonstrating a significant positive ROI for the featured brand.

No brand, no matter how small or large, or how big its marketing budget, is safe from social media mishaps. This e-book from uberVU via Hootsuite will review 9 types of social media fails, discuss how they happened and detail how they could have been avoided. We'll also provide actionable lists of what your brand can do to prevent social media fails.

The Big 6 social networks offer tremendous marketing opportunites—and each one is very different. That’s why Spredfast has assembled our 6 Blueprints for Social
Network Success. In this quick-read collection, you’ll discover more than 50 constructive, actionable marketing tips and real-world examples from major brands like Hyatt, British Airways, Target, and General Mills. Let’s start building!

Learn how an industry-leading provider of storage and data management solutions used Social Business Software to accelerate a global branding initiative and connect with thousands of community members across one hundred countries.

Do you manage a growing office that could benefit from marketing, but lack the support of a large marketing team? A little time spent marketing your business can go a long way. And it doesn’t have to take a lot of time! We’re sharing some advice on ways you can quickly take care of marketing duties via:
Blogs
Social Media
Direct Mail
And more!
Read this checklist for valuable tips!

75% of brands now pay to promote their Facebook posts,1 and
that number will only continue to rise over the next few years.
Why pay for ads when Facebook is technically a “free” social
network? Well, you may have noticed that your organic posts
on Facebook are reaching fewer and fewer people every
day (and probably not getting the engagement they deserve,
either). That’s because organic reach for brand pages has hit an
all time low at around 2%, and organic reach per post continues
to decline rapidly every single day.1 Last year, SocialFlow saw a
42% drop in organic reach per post in just five months.

In this paper, we introduce the essential components of online opinion monitoring. By incorporating them into your analysis, you can take full advantage of the opportunities that social media offers to you. Opinion monitoring will help you to develop informed advertising and marketing strategies that promote your brand’s market success.

Engaging Your Employees & Improving Adoption and Retention of Key Business Messages
Today's Corporate Communications leaders are tasked with making their employees smarter about your company's business, elevating their engagement and knowledge around your brand in ways that are impactful, memorable and enables retention of the key messages. Yet in a recent CMO Study conducted by IBM Institute For Business Value, only 20% of CMO's believe that the corporate character and brand are fully understood by the organizations employees.
Join us for a 60-minute webinar to discover how how other companies are successfully creating advocates out of their employees and help them to better understand their corporation's key messages through the use of new and exciting technologies.

Learn about the 3 steps that must be followed in order to integrate social media into your sponsorship offerings and see how this will help your organization’s branding and improve your return on investment.